Gas saving device



Sept- 18, 1934. L. J. BAKER Er AL 1,973,791

GAS SAVING DEVICE Filed March 10. 1955 AAfToRNEY Patented Sept. 18, 1934 :Q UNirfEosTA TESv PArENr'oFFicE sfclaims. (o1. fsm-12o) device pertainsto an improvement in gas saving d evices, and in producing a hotter flame and increased pressure and rendering thegas service'more effective for the consumer andarnore 'eifectve control of gasfconsurnption by the'user.

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Italso'provides a simple method of application and mounting of the same and the control of the gas after passing the meter and into the hands With these `objects in view our invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter fully described and pointed out in the claims, reference being made to the accompanying drawing in r' which:

Fig. 1 isa side View of our device in cross section mounted in a gas pipe union.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of gas pipe unions partly separated with our device located therein. The same reference characters denote like parts in each of the several figures of the drawing.

In carrying out our invention we provide a gas control which is mounted in the gas pipe at the point of union between opposite lengths of gas i' pipe A and B, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Our device is formed of two parts, one part mounted in the outer end of pipe B. It is to be understood in use that each pipe has the usual threaded outer surface and on the point of union is the usual shaped coupling line C for uniting the pipe ends together.

As a further part of our device and in positioning the two parts of the same we mount in pipe A an interior disk shaped part 2, having on its outer edge the projecting flange 3 and having a central opening in the body 4. This disk may be tightly fitted in the interior of the pipe A. Next to the disk 2 we mount a rubber gasket 5, adjacent to disk 2 and having a central opening .therein 6.

As a further part of our device we mount in pipe A and adjacent to the rubber gasket a metal disk shaped part 7 having the central opening therein 8 and from which opening 8 and integral with the disk body projects inward from the opening 8, a tapering tube projection 9 which in position passes into the pipe A and through openings 6 and 8 respectively above mentioned. Positioned on the inner tapering tube 9 we mount a tapering cap 10, which extension cap 10 with closed outer end is larger in diameter than the projecting tube 9 and which cap 10 is slidably mounted on the tube 9 by means of the V`bent spring lugs 11, l1, which by pressure holds Vthe end cap 10 in correct horizontal position in pipe A, and withv its inner surface apart from contact with the outer surfacev of the tapering tube 9 allowing a free opening for iiowing gas to passaround the outside of 9 and into the outer f open end thereof, in the flow ofthe gas, as the arrow points.

As a further part' of our inventionfwe have),

also (mounted in the outer end of pipe B an intericr' 1disk 2', entered in pipe B and having on its edge an inward projecting flange V3' and hav-'- ing through it the central opening 4. This disk also is fitted in the interior of pipe B. Next adjacent todisk 2 we mount a circular rubber gasket 5 adjacent to disk 2 and having through it the central opening therein 6.

As a further part of our device we mount in pipe B adjacent to the rubber gasket 5 a circular 'metal disk '7' and having through it the central opening 8 and from which opening and integral with the interior disk 7' projects a tube 9' which passes into pipe B and through the disk openings 6 and 8 respectively. Thus there is formed between the end of pipe A and the end of pipe B when joined by the coupling A and between the respective tubes 9 and 9 an expanding chamber D; in operation, the gas after passing through the meter passes along pipe A, thence around the end of cap 10 and into the interior of cap 10 at the open end 12 and thence into the open end of the tapering tube 9 and out of pipe 8 and into expanding chamber D and from chamber D it passes into tube 9 and thence on into pipe B to the user.

It is found by careful experiment that this flow of gas in this method and under this control is reduced in pressure under which gas is ordinarily forced through the supply pipe and through the meter and without lessening the supply and flow of gas, thus permitting a great saving to be made to the consumer of gas.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and for which we desire Letters Patent is as follows:

l. In a gas saving device, a gas control mounted in a gas pipe at the point of union between the opposite end of two pipe sections, in the outer end of one section an inner disk with a ilange edge thereon, mounted in the gas pipe and an opening therethrough, adjacent to it, a rubber gasket, disk shaped, with opening therethrough, a front disk adjacent to gasket mounted in the pipe, a central opening therethrough, and from the opening and integral with disk, a tapering tubular projection in horizontal alignment pass.. ing inwardly and through the openings in the tion extending inwardly in the gas pipe and through the openings in theA disks Vbefore men-- tioned, and of smaller diameter thanfth etaperv ing tube mounted in the oppositegaspipesec: tion, the two gas pipe ends spaced apart and coupled by a pipe coupling,;a1lfolltheipllrpose described. c

2. In a gas saving device, mounted in each opposite...end of, two sectionsof gaspipe,4 said ends.

having thr o,ugh.rits centrakopening a tapering.

tubular vprojection extending inward through the openingsinthe, adjacent disks in the one gas pipe-sectiomwandalso afltapering tubular. cap of.. larga-diameter mounted on thetapering tubular, .,projection,vv supportedin anyconvenient ,manner on the tapering formation; in the opposite gas pip-e section, three or more parallel adjacent disk formations with central openings therethrough and from the central opening of the outer disk an inward projecting tube of smaller diameter than thetubularjormation. inthe Aormosite. Section-,and projecting inward through thexnpenings in the adjacent disk, forming a passage Way for gaspassing from the first gas pipe section into the chamber formed by the spaced apart gas pipe sections at the union, and into the gas pipe of thev,se,o ond flsection.

3. A gas saving device adapted to be mounted in two-adjacentalignedsections of pipe and comprisingadiskmourrted adjacent the end of one `oftlie,pipessaid ,disk,l1aving a central aperture ktherethrough provided with a tube tapering in the .1directionof.thesourceof flow of the gas, a second disk 1nopnted adjacent the end of the other pipesection'and provided with a tube extending toward jthemeter, .said disksr beingA ,Spacedtapart to, form `van. intermediate lchamber, andra capp tted overv theinwardendtof the ,taplingtube,Ll with its Ywalls 1spaeed therefromsaid.,cap.,being,

. closed .atits Iendnearest.the,source-o iow pfythe; gas, and: tapering ,ouifnrlardly,E toward. fthegueter Side Louis J. BAKER., FRED E. LAB/LAN.-A CHARLES.: R. ,BAKER-1. 

